Quotes About Transformation

Do not call anything impure that God has made clean" (Acts 10:15). Praise God that all who are in Christ have been made clean.

He began rebuilding me from the inside out so I could teach harder lessons but with a softer spirit.

Because the grape was proudly multipurpose, the shelf life it had to offer the ancient world was practically without rival. Grapes could be eaten fresh, straight from the vine. Dried, they were renamed raisins, and in the Bible, they were eaten plain or baked into cakes. Pressed, the grapes produced fresh juice, or far more significantly, they could be utterly transformed, possessing new properties and chemistry, into vinegars and wines.

The woman at the well, I believe, represents women everywhere— women who are forgiven sinners and women who are unforgiven sinners. Which describes you? The Samaritan woman was unforgiven, just like a lot of women in the world. But then she encountered Jesus. I

We are not obligated to the flesh to live according to the flesh. Romans 8:12

God is busy making you someone no one else has ever been.

Clean out the old yeast so that you may be a new batch, since you are unleavened. For Christ our Passover has been sacrificed. 1 Corinthians 5:7

What fruit was produced then from the things you are now ashamed of? Romans 6:21

Just keep telling God how much you want to give Him your whole heart and mind. The wayward, defeated mind and the willfully depraved mind are not the same thing. Left unchecked, however, the former can lead to the latter.

Without the potter, clay is just dirt.

In God's plan not only was Christ to suffer the cross, but we too must die daily.

When God's glory appears, it just can't help but interrupt any routine.

Even though our outer person is being destroyed, our inner person is being renewed day by day 2 Corinthians 4:16

Have you ever physically turned from a sin and ceased the activity, yet continued to cherish it to some degree in your heart?

You should no longer walk as the Gentiles walk, in the futility of their thoughts. Ephesians 4:17

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

Prayer matters. It's not just words in the air. The Spirit of God released through our prayers and the prayers of others is enough to turn cowards into conquerors, chaos into calm, cries into comfort.

I have given Him permission to take every one of my memories captive to Christ, and now I can no longer see my abuses and sins in their own accord or in the hands of Satan. Now I see them in the healing, forgiving, nail-scarred hands of Jesus where He is cleansing them and transforming them into the stuff of mercy.

Lord, make me a student and take me not home, until You look in my face and see the reflection of Your own.

I am sure of this, that He who started a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. Colossians 1:13

If our stubborn minds would absorb that we are accepted by God because of Jesus Christ, our choices and subsequent behaviors would be profoundly affected.

Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.

we're leaving Gilgal with a lighter wardrobe than we wore there. It's high time some of us traded a spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise. Our next stop in the Promised